Tanquary Vista
27″ × 62″, oil on linen (2013) Tanquary Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
From the INTO THE ARCTIC Project
Eight hundred kilometres shy of the North Pole is the austere Ellesmere Island. Here the enormity of the land, along with the clean air and lack of trees, makes judging distance difficult. What one expects to be an hour-long hike often turns into a half-day journey. After one such exhausting trek – which included multiple icy river crossings and uphill climbs – I found the most spacious view I’d ever seen from land, stretching beyond Tanquary Fiord and far into the distant mountains.
Victor Jones
Posted at 23:47h, 22 OctoberWonderful capture of a special place and vistas , especially as one ascends north of the Macdonald river and the snout and terminal morrain of Gull Glacier just visible, mid summer judging from sea ice. Parks Canada now has its base for Quttinirpaq National Park located on the shore near a stream where a metal barn I helped build in 1970 still stands, holding the Arctic gear and scientific equipment used over several decades of oceanographic and glacier research. Having worked several summers there it was a treat to return in 2014 for the official opening of the Park.